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conceptA chemical hormone that promotes wakefulness, involved in sleep regulation.
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The article also explains that we ideally want to wake up naturally at a time when the hormones that encourage wakefulness, like adrenocorticotropin and cortisol, are at their highest, and by the same logic go to sleep when melatonin and adenosine concentrations are raised in the body.